Nishi-Chiba

Weekday departures: 478/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 234/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:30 / 24:59 (00:59 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (39)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 4 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Sobu Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Sobu Main Line: Inage ⇄ Chiba

Nishi-Chiba Station opened on 1 October 1942 as a Japanese Government Railways stop on the Sōbu Main Line in central Chiba City. It was originally built with two side platforms and three tracks, but track elevation later reduced this to one island platform serving two tracks. The station was opened to coincide with the establishment of the University of Tokyo's Second Faculty of Engineering on the north side, an area now occupied by Chiba University's Nishi-Chiba campus. The platforms passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 with the breakup of Japanese National Railways. The Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office closed on 6 February 2013 and the station became a business-contract station in December 2014.

The station opened to serve the wartime University of Tokyo Second Faculty of Engineering, a military-research institution whose campus later became the postwar Institute of Industrial Science and is now home to Chiba University's Nishi-Chiba campus.